This film is in effect a slideshow of exquisite single photographic images in sparkling black and white, representing Mikesch’s own version of Mary Stuart. “The drama of a woman who attempted a kind of liberal emancipation in a time of upheaval, but got caught in the snares of men,” in her words. Confronted with layers and layers of conflicting information about “how it really was” Mikesch decided not to try to be a historian, but to radicalise the narrative and condense it into striking images of passion, power, love, pain and death.
Elfi Mikesch
Director
Heinz Emigholz
Narrator (voice)
Berryt Bohlen
Polo Espinoza
Vroni Hinkelbein
La Milli
Magdalena Montezuma
Raphael
Frank Ripploh
Frank Soletti
Dalíland59%
Girl in the Box67%
Mr. Turner65%
Oranges and Sunshine69%
All Eyez on Me67%
Queen of the Ring67%
For Greater Glory: The True Story of Cristiada68%
Suffragette71%
Truth & Treason79%
Die Glasbläserin65%
Panther62%
Firebrand63%
The Smashing Machine63%
Munich - The Edge of War69%
Hounddog64%
Mansfield Park61%
The Rosa Parks Story71%
Reservoir Dogs74%
The Last Rifleman66%
Mary62%
